Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Soledad Mountain Deposit, Soledad Mountain (Butte Mountain), Mojave, Mojave-Rosamond District (Mojave District), Kern Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 80502
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-80502.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Soledad Mountain Deposit, Soledad Mountain (Butte Mountain), Mojave, Mojave-Rosamond District (Mojave District), Kern Co., California, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
National Mine
Soledad Mountain Project (Victory)

Latitude: 34°56'30"N
Longitude: 118°11'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.941666666667,-118.18944444444

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Acanthite	Copper	Halotrichite	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Stibnite

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ag Al As Au Fe H O S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Copper Halotrichite Melanterite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Stibnite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Gold ()*	Halotrichite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Melanterite ()*
Proustite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3	159839,159848,159851	2793
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	159837,159839,159842,159843,159845,159851,159853	30554
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	159843	409
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	159845	1689
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	159848	915
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	159842	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	159852	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	159852	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	159843,159851	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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